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Amber Vittoria, photo by David Zhang
In Conversation With Amber Vittoria
OpenSea: What is the inspiration behind your new collection, Vibes?
Amber Vittoria: In early 2023, I was chatting with a toy maker, and I wanted to do an abstract toy...
Jessica Yatrofsky, photo by Bobby Davidson
In Conversation with Jessica Yatrofsky
OpenSea: What excites you in the web3 and NFT space right now?
Jessica Yatrofsky: As artists creating NFTs, we have the opportunity to trailblaze and shape the future...
Azuki
Azuki Announces Anime Series
Chiru Labs, the creator of popular PFP projects Azuki and Beanz, is partnering with renowned Japanese anime director Gorō Taniguchi to create an anthology series.
The series is part of Azuki's strategy to offer diverse content and aims to blend Azuki's universe with innovative web3-driven storytelling.
Moonbirds
Moonbirds Talons Marketplace
Attention Moonbirds holders! The Talons Marketplace, a new part of the PROOF ecosystem, launched on January 9 at 10:30am PST. Get ready for a series of exciting Tuesdays in January, as new listings and surprises reportedly will be unveiled weekly.
Trip 3 trailer, via @Othersidemeta
Otherside Trip 3 Trailer Debuts
Yuga Labs' latest move has stirred up a storm of reactions. On January 9, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) creators released a trailer for Trip 3, the third playtest of the company’s much-anticipated metaverse project, Otherside.
X
X Removes NFT PFPs
X (formerly Twitter), under Elon Musk's vision for 2024, has quietly axed the option for paid subscribers to set an NFT as their profile picture (PFP). Launched in January 2022, the NFT PFP feature originally allowed Twitter Blue subscribers to display Ethereum-minted NFTs — either the ERC-721 or ERC-1155 token standard — as hexagon-shaped avatars. Linking PFPs to an Ethereum token validated details about the NFT, including its collection, contract address, TokenID and minting app used.
Mercari
Mercari To Enable Payment with BTC
Japan's e-commerce leader, Mercari, announced it will begin accepting Bitcoin payments by June this year. This move follows the company’s launch of an in-app Bitcoin exchange last year.
Mercari, a popular digital marketplace with over 22 million monthly users, will allow transactions in Bitcoin through its Tokyo-based blockchain subsidiary, Mercoin.
OpenSea
OpenSea Introduces Wallet Creation Using Email
Starting this week, all you need to get started on OpenSea is an email address. With our new onboarding experience and Privy’s technology, you can create an OpenSea account with a self-custodied crypto wallet using your email.
This wallet is fully integrated with OpenSea: you can use it to buy, sell, add, send, and receive crypto and NFTs, manage your funds, and view transactions on the blockchain, all without a separate wallet extension. You can use it across all nine EVM-based chains compatible with OpenSea.